additional tax cuts to middle-class families, tax cuts for healthcare, tax cuts to help families pay for their college tuition, tax cuts for childcare. these families are struggling and hurting and they need more tax relief, not less tax relief. but to help get us on the path to a balanced budget, we want to get rid of some of the bureaucratic spending in washington. they've actually layered on more supervisory people, people at the supervisory level in this government. we also want to close some corporate loopholes. i want to be honest with people. we can't eliminate this deficit. people have heard that over and over and over in four years. we cannot do it. we're in too deep a hole. but we can cut the deficit in half and move this country back on a path to fiscal responsibility. >> 90 seconds, mr. vice president. >> the kerry record on taxes is one basically of voting for a large number of tax increases, 98 times in the united states senate. there's a fundamental philosophical difference here between the president and myself, who believe we ought to let the american people keep more